Posted
by
ScuttleMonkey
on Sunday October 16, 2005 @03:33AM
from the lots-of-happy-people-made-happier dept.

Harlan writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are claiming that high doses of cannabinoids have induced new brain cell growth in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, in rat subjects. There are some interesting potential implications in regards to high doses of cannabinoids found in substances like marijuana."

The team injected laboratory rats with a synthetic substance called HU-210, which is similar, but 100 times as potent as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for giving marijuana users a high.

Clearly my dealer has been lying to me. He swore there was nothing stronger than his stuff. Where do I get HU-210?..or better yet, how do I make it?

Thurgood Jenkins: The MacGyver smoker is a very handy guy to have around, especially when it comes to reefer.McGayver Friend: Hey, man, we're out of papers.McGayver Smoker: All right. Then get me a toilet paper roll, a corkscrew and some tin foil.McGayver Friend: We don't have a corkscrew.McGayver Smoker: All right. Then get me an avocado, an ice pick and my snorkel.McGayver Smoker: [Friend looks at him funny] Trust me, bro. I've made bongs with less. Hurry up!

Seriously was I the only one who saw the headline and thought "cannibal androids had found a way to increase our brain sizes so they have more food!?!?!" before thinking "why would cannibal androids eat humans!?"

They can cure diabetes in rats, they can grow organs in rats, now they can increase the rat brain. Still it does not mean much to us, none of these works in humans yet. Rats are similar but not identical.

Yeah I know, in Soviet Russia communism was first tested on humans before being tested on rats.

When you have to struggle to remember what you and your bong bud have just been talking about, it makes sense that you'd have to exercise your brain's memory regions. Smoking pot is like walking with leg weights -- it's harder to do when you have them on, but when they come off you're stronger for the extra effort you exerted.

Your brain learns both by creating connections and by deleting them. If you create to many new connections you can't thnk straight. Everything gets too connected and you can't resolve your thoughts. You have to prune nodes to be able to think effciently and to focus.

Thus your comment is right on.

Clearly the only solultion is to first smoke loads of weed to build up your brains connecitons, and then huff gasoline to prune them back to a useful level. Then you will be a super genius.

ffffffffffffffffffffffffff *cough* *cough* *cough* fffffffffffffffffff *cough*dude, I so knew that smoking was making me smarter, I mean, like , I've been smokin for years and every time I spark up I have great ideas that like, you know, are, like, cool, you know what I mean. Like that time I came up with that electronic voting system that worked with my television remote, that was like.. coool. Or the time that I figured out how to make breakfast burritos using the toaster. hehe, that was cool, too bad about the toaster though. Dude, quit hoggin the bong, I have to get to work, Steve wants me to come up with yet another version of the ipod. I think this time we will give it.. dude this is soo cool.. get this.. this time we will put a wider screen on it and call it the ipod cinema only get this dude, it won't actually play movies on the wide screen, it will dock with your new apple iTV, and get this.. it will only play back on your personal iTV... hehe, DRM is soo cool, definetly my best idea yet.. anyhow, save me some of that, I gotta come up with some other cool shit when I get home.

No, no, you're just misunderstanding George. The truth is that he didn't pay enough attention in Sunday school. All he got out of it was that Jesus was a Jew, and Jesus was God. So naturally, whenever he talks about God, he just means "Jews".

"God wants me to help Israel." "God wants me to invade Iraq." "I wasn't elected, I was appointed by God." "I have a meeting with God this afternoon." "God is a neocon." etc...